Lemon Trout Fillets with Capers

Serves 4
Time 10 min
Lemon Trout Fillets with Capers

A meal in minutes, these delicious fillets are topped with a classic sauce of butter, lemon and capers. Remove pin bones before cooking or make sure to alert diners to watch for these tiny bones in their fillets. You can swap in skin-on trout fillets, if desired.

Special Diets:

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Ingredients

    1/3 cupall-purpose flour
    1/2 teaspoonfine sea salt
    4(4- to 6-ounce) butterflied trout fillets, head and tail removed
    3 tablespoonsunsalted butter, divided
    2 tablespoonslemon juice
    1/2 teaspoongrated lemon zest
    2 tablespoonscapers

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Method

Combine flour and salt in a shallow bowl or baking dish. 

Pat fillets dry. 

Dredge fillets in flour and pat off excess.

Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until melted. 

Add fillets to skillet, skin side up, and cook about 3 minutes or until golden, carefully turn fish and continue to cook on the other side 2 to 3 minutes longer or until fish is opaque throughout. 

Remove fish to a serving platter and keep warm. (This may have to be done two at a time, depending on the size of the skillet.)

Add remaining 1 tablespoon butter to skillet and melt. 

Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice, lemon zest and capers until heated through. 

Serve fillets with lemon-caper sauce.

Nutritional Info

Serving Size

Calories

290

Total Fat

14g

Saturated Fat

7g

Cholesterol

105mg

Sodium

500mg

Total Carbohydrate

9g

Dietary Fiber

0g

Total Sugars

0g

Protein

31g

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